Syfy goes Grindhouse for Blood Drive

Smallville’s Aquaman, Hunger Games star Alan Ritchson, will be the lead of Syfy’s new Grindhouse-inspired show, Blood Drive.

According to Deadline, the show is set in a near-apocalyptic future in Los Angeles, and focuses on Arthur Bailey (Ritchson), a former cop who is now working for a private security company. He partners with a dangerous femme fatale who has an agenda of her own. Bailey deplores the violence that is encouraged among his peers and sincerely wants to help make this arid, quake-ravaged and dystopian world a better place. However during an investigation, he is forced to join the Blood Drive, an underground death race in which the cars run on human blood.

The show was given a 13 episode straight to series order. James Roland created the series and will write the pilot; John Hlavin and David Straiton will executive produce.